Rethinking Music Loving

Rethinking Music “Appreciation”

This study reflects upon and explains the strategies developed in teaching music appreciation in a large urban secondary school. These reflections were developed through an action research study that took place during the 2005-2006 school year. Taken in the broadest, possible view, this study is a small example of how globalization and its offshoots – diversity and multiculturalism – are inhere...

Rethinking reflexive looper for structured pop music

Reflexive Looper (RL) is a live-looping system which allows a solo musician to incarnate the different roles of a whole rhythm section by looping rhythms, chord progressions, bassline and more. The loop pedal, is still the most used device for those types of performances, accounting for many of the cover songs performances on youtube, but not all kinds of song apply. Unlike a common loop pedal,...

Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music and Jazz

Scholars in a broad range of disciplines are rethinking race and ethnicity in conjunction with genre, nationalism, place, cosmopolitanism, the shift towards neoliberalism since 1985, and intellectual property. In this paper I use a comparative perspective to think about the typical representations of Brazilian music and jazz as emerging from tri-ethnic and bi-ethnic heritages. I consider the as...

DNA or loving care?

to five contestants might be involved in child-custody conflicts. As cases of ART in which third parties are involved become more common, the issue of what constitutes a parent is now, perhaps more than ever, highly contested. There is no consensus on what parents are or what they should be. At the heart of the issue are at least two important questions. First, what is the relative importance a...

The ethics of loving care.